How to Create a Multiboot USB Toolkit on Linux
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2020
- How to create a multiboot USB toolkit on Linux using MultiBootUSB, Parted Magic, Rescatux and Eset SysRescue Live
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Parted Magic - partedmagic.com/
Rescatux - www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/
Eset SysRescue - www.eset.com/int/support/sysr... 
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Even though you're no longer here, you're still here, and you're still making such a difference and help to people on their journey with Linux. See you on the other side.
I concur. USB tools like these are very useful when creating a forked distribution of Debian for personal and/or commercial use. This man has created a great legacy with these video tutorials.
Just found your channel, want to thank you for, being English, expertly putting this across to an ex-tech of a similar age, and giving me the option to carry everything I might need on a USB stick -just great!! Will continue to keep your site on my favourites -All the best and -Thank you.
Cheers Charlie
Wow! I like that statement... "Back in the Day we had our CD's and Boot Floppies." or something to that effect... :-)
I still have all my CD's and Floppies from when I went on service calls to fix someone's computer that was not booting or Windows did not start. In those days there was no Windows 10 or 7, it was 3.1 or 311 or WFW (Windows for Workgroups) and Windows NT, lets not forget Windows Server... Great Days... I was a Service Technicians not a IT person, IT was not invented yet... Lol
Thanks OTB for the video... You told me that I needed something before I needed it... Lol
LLAP
Cheers Bruce, yes I cut my teeth on windows 3.11 and then everything that followed, so lots of floppy disks and CDs. In fact, I came across a brand new box of floppy disks in our local store yesterday that must have been on the shelf for 10 years plus - made me laugh and brought back memories
I remember the first win office came on 32 floppys. Didn't look forward to installing that very often!
@Claude Belanger They where great or hacking, a morse key trigger a break an in you where.. Now with Gigabyte connections you have to be very fast and it doesn't work anymore, luckily we have Shodan now...
Thank you for this video. Very helpful and straight to the point.
Good video OTB. Very informative, no useless fluff. I opted in and will be back.
Good to hear
Great video, thanks! I may need something like this in the future
Thanks for the comment :-)
Ah, exactly what I was looking for. Excellent video.
Very informative, OTB. Thanks again!
Cheers Andrew
This is extremely helpful, thank you OTB!
You’re welcome
excellent material and language usage. many thanks from Nuuk, Greenland. cheers!!
Cheers
Great video. A Multi-boot rescue USB should be in everyone's pc toolkit.
I agree :-)
Thank you, this saved me a lot of time.
love you video gave me a lot option have these sort thinks thank you
Thank you for this excellent tutorial! Now I no longer have to have to keep so many USB sticks.
No worries!
@@OldTechBloke I tried to use MultibootUSB on Solus Linux but the resulting USB with Two test images on it (MX KDE and Gecko) but it would boot at all; I wondered if I needed to do anything extra to install a bootloader or something but there must be some other problem
I previously used this on Windows and it worked just fine and actually ended up trying it because it was the only thing on Solus Linux that would install an OS with persistence, I'd use Rufus before on Windows but that has been restricted to Windows use only and won't even work on Wine...
Great video!
I am using Ventoy for this purpose you should definitely try it.
I came to the comments to make sure somebody said this!
I am a newby and I also found Ventoy was the easieast program to learn and use. I am so glad I heard about it. Cheers OTB, I have enjoyed your program.
🤟🤟🤟👍👍 this video as I've been going through your videos Thank you so much
I just watched this and while I like what you put on it, none of these multiboot solutions hod a candle to Ventoy. Use the Linux or windows script to create a bootable USB. You then drag and drop your iso's to have them listed. I've tried all the solutions you mentioned, but have had problems with each one. I couldn't tell you how I happened across it, but I'm happy I did.
I sure wish your video had been half the length. I was glad to hear that you had a Debian stable system. I am looking for channels that concentrate on that - at least in a few videos.
great tutorial. Many thanks ! :)
You are welcome!
I've just set myself up a stick using Easy 2 Boot which is a lot more versatile than what you have here, though the ISOs you have chosen are certainly interesting to the point where I might just add them too.
Mmmm this is the best way to learn and be useful thks very very very much 🔛
You're welcome :-)
thank you so much.
Hey OTB, Love that walpaper of yours in this video. Is there some place to download it from I love water scenes. by the way, Love your videos and I may be going with Feren I loved your presentation on it, great job and thanks.
I wish I could remember where I got the wallpaper as it's one I've had for a while
hello im using ventoy which is great for multiboot usb-s.
Multiboot USB is great and very simple - you will have to create a partion on your USB before use - I was a bit confused by that intitially but only because I am a bit slow.
Great Video! Just set mine up and added Clonezilla and Ubuntu desktop to the mix. Worked great in tests! Thanks
A good topic. I have been using Linux most of the time (you know, gaming...) for a few years now but I haven't done that yet and I think that it can come in handy. For example, I run main Arch but due to a mistake I ended up with a few GB (4?) of files (I wanted to make an ISO of a distro, I used a script which comes from a trustworthy source but doesn't work in those circumstances) in my home folder which I could not easily remove. I chmodded the files, changed ownership to the user but still I couldn't remove those files. I tried out if I could fix it by removing attributes, the rabbit-hole went deeper. I was in over my head so I burned Manjaro to a USB, booted it up and removed those files that way. It comes in handy sometimes to be able to put multiple distros on one USB.
do it work with HFS+ ? What i'm looking into is make a one in all usb installer for Linux, MacOs and Windows. As an IT i will find this amazing as i'll only have to carry one USB for all my on road fixes OSES reinstall. Nice video btw, keep the good work.
Ah cool. I'm not in the game {IT} anymore but still fix families Winblows PC's. Thanks heaps for the vid. Heading off to go set mine up.
Cheers Pete, yes it's a must have these days
Great video OTB, may i ask what is the distro you are using? Love your wallpaper too, though i've noticed in your comments you can't remember where you've got it from..
Hi, I'm using arch. Most of my wallpapers were 'borrowed' from distrotubes gitlab. I should probably put mine up on my gitlab as well
@@OldTechBloke Hi, thank you so much...if you do remember the desktop that is showing, I would be grateful...Is it the standard Arch?
I am testing the Linux waters, already testing PoPOS! and GNome family, I really like them, but really loved your desktop too with the top toolbar layout and bottom MacOS-like....plenty to digest... Thanks once more!
Yumi was that not part of managing Suse Open???
I installed a Active Directory Domain next to in a DMZ Windows NT server...
You might be thinking of yast or perhaps yum :-)
Can you create one with different distros, like Arch, Solus, etc to install if you are switching people over to Linux and they have certain needs for a different distro?
Absolutely, your only limit is the size of the usb stick
Hi installed from terminal just copied the name of the file and put it in tryid your way download first but the gdebi could not find it for some reason
Ho OTB, This is just what I've been looking for a tool like this I've not known where to start looking and you just popped up on my screen, a God incident I'm sure, something explained so well and simple enough for me to understand I run widows10 and Linux mint 19.3 and work a good bit on other peoples computers with a rather limited knowledge I klnow quite a bit but all I've had so far is UBCD and Acronis cloning software
You're very welcome
@@OldTechBloke some laptops Ive got, the starlab ones dont seem to support bios booting and only seem to do efi boot so I've been looking for a wiping tool that supports efi booting, also the Linux boot manager replacement tool will be useful to me as i've never learned how too do it in the terminal
Super vid! Very informative. Everyone should have a rescue solution. Also to consider.... lots of new PC's come with slots for SD &/or microSD. At the moment, I'm using a 256GB microSD chip for my multi-boot rescue kit. I've had to use gParted so often, you'd think Micro$oft would include it with Windows 10.
Very true!
Now if you choose the load Grub2 will that act as the grub2 for the PC you're booting the USB from? Say if the grub configs got messed up on a multiboot system it would find the OSs installed and display them? I could find that to be a useful tool.
Sorry, you answered it later in the video. :)
There may be a way to do this if refind could be installed. It would only work in uefi mode but worth looking into
One thing to try that sometimes works is to go into the grub2 commandline (press c while the menu is showing). Then find the grub.cfg file for the version you want to boot, using the ls command. Note the syntax of the file path in this environment is something like (hd0, gpt2)/boot/grub/grub.cfg or (hd0,gpt2)/grub/grub.cfg (depending on whether you have a separate boot partition or not). Then simply go to that file with this command:
configfile (hd0,gpt2)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
In general this works when the boot sector is compromised or uefi has failed somehow, but the filesystem for your linux install is intact.
What version of multibootusb are you using? I'm having problems getting parted magic to work on multibootusb
I ended up just using multisystem, works perfectly. Thanks keep the videos coming
Just looked Robert and its 9.2.0-1
Many moons ago I worked with a guy named Les. We created many different service disks. The very first disk that we made copies of and all carried with us to all the site service was named “Why settle for Les”. Lets just say we got more call backs when Les was out doing our service calls.
Hi OTB! Thank you for another very interesting video. I successfully used your video instructions and installed Multibootusb and then downloaded and installed Clonezilla-live and Rescatux and then Linux Mint 19.3 MATE. Did a test drive, as per your suggestion and both Clonilla-live and Linux Mint booted successfully. Alas, Rescatux failed, returning an error "Failed to load COM32 file vesamenu-c32"
I then uninstalled Rescatux and tried with an older version. Got the same result. Downloaded both the old and newer versions from Rescatux website and tried again, with the same failure and error message.
Both of those files are in /media/zed/USB STICK/multibootusb, which is where mulyibootusb was installed. It seems strange to me that bothother isos have no problem but Rescatux has.
Your advice is sought, please? The Rescatux versions I have tried are: rescatux-0.71-beta7.iso and rescatux-0.72-beta6.iso
Hi Albert, that sounds like the same error I got on the video. Try opening grub from the boot screen and boot rescatux from there. That worked for me
Thank you for your prompt reply. That cured the problem but booting Rescatux was very slow. I have an AMD FX4100 processor and normally boot Legacy mode. Been trying to find out whether that processor supports UEFI, without success.I ask because multiboot grub is UEFI mode!
It’s used for booting in uefi mode but should work for standard bios mode as well - although I found rescatux booted from grub and everything else booted from the main menu
@@OldTechBloke Many UEFI BIOSes have a 'bug'. If the USB boot drive has a valid \EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi file on it, then the BIOS Boot Selection pop-up menu does not present you with the option to MBR\Legacy boot! This means that you can only UEFI-boot. To see if this is the issue with your BIOS, simply rename the \EFI folder to something else.
FYI: The multibootusb.org url is no longer working, looks like they let it expire.
thanks lot of.
I would like to find a USB drive that has a write lock feature. Something like a physical switch that tries to turn the flash memory to ROM. Or a forensic write blocker.
Why do you need that?
IODD Mini - it is AES encrypted and write-protectable and can boot any ISOs copied to it (just copy them on) rmprepusb.blogspot.com/2020/06/getting-started-with-iodd-mini-usb-ssd.html
Yay for Ventoy.
Did you manage to install either tails or kali with MultibootUSB. Both failed for me?
Never tried Dave
@@OldTechBloke any chance you could try and fire one of those two distros onto your USB Pendrive using multiboot USB. If it goes on for you then I'm doing something wrong and will troubleshoot myself. if it fails for you I needn't waste more time as it is probably an issue with distro compatibility?
supposed to work using Ventoy - but, read Tails persistence won't work with it
Ventoy Is my best choice
Here's me thinknig you were going to talk about Ventoy.
they added linux to the last build 19603
you will thank me later,
the thing is ventoy for all your os installations need.
I use ventoy it not working
Look for Easy2boot for those who are still looking
Multiplatform for linux iso and windows
And it holds your Repair Utilities
As far as my research goes, Easy2Boot is the best tool out there. However it does have a learning curve.
you sound like James Spader
FYI: Bad experience with MutlibootUSB: seems to be really buggy:
github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/issues/525
I've not looked at it for a while but will return to the subject and see whats happening
Linux whi r using
Back in the day, SARDU was fantastic. Since they went to their paid model, it pretty well sux. Sad that when posing it's worse than years past.
Easy2Boot is pretty good. His rip off scheme is to give the program away for free, then charge for documents to use it to it's full potential. I have no issue in making a living, but his process are a bit steep.
The great thing for E2B is it is the only one I've found that lets a USB bit a machine with secure boot turned on.
The easy2boot.com website has 150 pages of details. All info is on the site and there is also a blog site which has step-by-step HowTos. You don't need to buy the eBooks, 99% of all the info that is in the eBooks is also freely available on the E2B website and my blog. E2B v2 now adds direct UEFI-multibooting from Linux\Windows ISOs, VHD, WIM, EFI, IMG files etc. and most systems will Secure Boot too. It uses the open-source A1ive grub2 File Manager from github. It's all free! ruclips.net/video/q6wbTAazfv0/видео.html
eBook #1 contains over 140 pages and includes detailed Exercises, explanations, hints and tips, etc. for the extortionate price of $5 (sorry you find that a 'bit steep')!
look into www.ventoy.net/en/index.html for another multi-boot
Hey OTB, great video btw..
You can check out Ventoy, its new but its already got a version release version(1) and a lot of features.
And supports both Windows and Linux and quite easy to use.
Links:-
Site: www.ventoy.net
Github: github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
DISCLAIMER:
I am not paid in anyway by the Ventoy people. I just simply like the functionality and simplicity of use of the software, so i'm giving credit where its due.
Ever heard of ventoy
No mate, I'll take a look
use ventoy!!!
I am interested in your reasoning to jump over and ignore multi-system??
Sorry, I'm not completely sure what you mean
@@OldTechBloke well you mentioned multi-system add scrolled down to the next item.. Why did you do that?
Guess yoiu never heard of gently. Its touted as the best.
Ventoy is working for me these days
Funny how the "universal" multiboot installer only runs on Windows.
Yes, not that universal after all :-)
is it a feeling or multisystem seems not as good than before? So slowww, failures ...
To be honest I haven’t used it for a few months so perhaps worth revisiting
Please, to the point
Wrong channel mate
Tried what you did and eset failed to install.
Interesting. What distro did you install it on? Only asking because I only downloaded everything yesterday morning. I was using the deb file
@@OldTechBloke I was doing it from Arch. I did however get Arch, Debian, Fedora, and am testing a few more. Ubuntu 19.10 failed, MX Linux, PopOS, and Solus have also failed. I may try installing Debian or Fedora and try from there. I need to do more testing but I got the hirens boot cd (new win 10 community one) to also work so now I want to try a real windows one
I've the same problem on Manjaro KDE, cannot install ESET iso nor the pmagic iso.
In Multiboot there is an Install Syslinux tab, do you have to install that? (I did after the 1st failure).
I multiboot into Win10, Manjaro (my main OS), Mint 19.3, or Arch. I'll have to try one of those.
I am using MultiBootUSB 9.3.0 from the git-hub
The ESET errors are below :-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scripts/mbusb_gui.py", line 367, in install_syslinux
self.install_syslinux_impl()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scripts/mbusb_gui.py", line 390, in install_syslinux_impl
syslinux_distro_dir(config.usb_disk, config.image_path, config.distro)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scripts/syslinux.py", line 330, in syslinux_distro_dir
build_distro_bootsector(usb_disk, options,
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scripts/syslinux.py", line 236, in build_distro_bootsector
shutil.copy(tmp_bs, distro_sys_install_bs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 409, in copy
copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 259, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/media/root/MultiRepair/multibootusb/eset_sysrescue_live_enu/isolinux/grub4dos.bs'
I’m afraid I’m not a dev but the common element here seems to be using it on an arch based system. You could try sending the errors to the developer to see if he has any insights. You shouldn’t need to install Syslinux agai again. Try the deb file in mint. That’s the one I used on Debian stable
OK I haven't tested it yet, but I have all 3 ISO's installed. The problem seems to be with v9.3.0 from the AUR git hub. I uninstalled it and selected the AUR only version v9.2.0-4 using 'yay -S multibootusb'.
I reformatted the USB stick, did not use the 'Install Syslinux' option tab. I just selected each ISO in turn and they all installed.
What is beeta?
A beta is software that is still in development - a pre-release
Someone who goes ahead of the guns and dogs to make the game fly up so they can be shot for the table, old boy.
OldTechBloke
You need to try ventoy it's the best I've used so far